People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.